Priest
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Unbeknowst to them, a Catholic
priest
was murdered in a confession booth that is now stored in the basement, and the man who killed him hung himself because of guilt.
For starters, the plot is fresh and compelling: Sinister excommunicated renegade Satanist
priest
Father Michael Rayner (a wonderfully wicked Christopher Lee) plots to impregnate sweet innocent nun Catharine (a ravishing and beguiling Nastassja Kinski in her first big role) so she will give birth to the spawn of the Devil.
There's dumb-fun in watching this thing play out--if you're not too demanding--though one persistent question remains: why was the
priest
wearing fingernail polish?
Uffizi has become so obsessed with his mission that he even stepped back as a
priest.
Given the current popular mood – soured by recent terrorist attacks, from the murder of 86 people in a truck attack in Nice in July to the savage slaughter of a
priest
in Normandy later that month – Sarkozy’s approach may just work.
To quote Havel's close friend, the Catholic
priest
and philosopher Tomas Halik (whom Havel once proposed as his successor), democracy without civil society is like a body without blood circulation.
Fang Jue, a reformer who served a four-year term for economic crimes, and Jiang Surang, an underground Catholic
priest
sentenced to six years for illegally publishing Bibles, were both punished in this way.
Learning from Martin Luther About Technological DisruptionGENEVA – Five hundred years ago this week, a little-known
priest
and university lecturer in theology did something unremarkable for his time: he nailed a petition to a door, demanding an academic debate on the Catholic Church’s practice of selling “indulgences” – promises that the buyer or a relative would spend less time in purgatory after they died.
Among the victims was a Coptic priest, whom the captors beat severely before shaving his head and moustache.
But the real breakthrough came in 1989, when Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev met with Pope John Paul II, a Polish
priest
who had spent the past decade framing his papacy as part of the opposition to the Soviet’s atheistic totalitarian rule.
In Poland, supposedly a Catholic country, there is a radio program and daily newspaper owned by "Radio Maria," both public voices of a charismatic, xenophobic, and fundamentalist
priest
who loathes our liberal society.
God, one realizes, is one’s only friend and only available family, because – deprived even of access to a trusted
priest
– there is no one else in whom to confide one’s worries and hopes.
Father Charles Coughlin, the 1930s-era Roman Catholic
priest
from Detroit who promoted a fascist agenda for America, consistently sought to root out the culprits for society’s problems.
Syria’s AgonyMADRID – The English author and
priest
William Ralph Inge once said that “A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.”
Talking to a stranger, whom one has never met before and will not meet again, may impede the normal processes of recovery that rely on one's own social networks - family, friends, priest, doctor, who may be better able to place the trauma in context.
As a very junior
priest
who derives his authority from his dead Ayatollah father – himself a populist – Sadr is opposed by Iraq’s living Ayatollahs, who despise his ignorance and violence.
Williamson’s opinions suddenly mattered, because this obscure, excommunicated
priest
was about to be reinstated by the Pope.
America exported its deregulatory free market philosophy, which even its high priest, Alan Greenspan, now admits was a mistake.
Killer PoliticiansNEW YORK – “Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?” asked Henry II as he instigated the murder of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket, in 1170.
The first three doses of ZMapp were administered to the American medical missionaries Kent Brantly and Nancy Whitebol, who have recovered, and the Spanish
priest
Miguel Pajares, who has since died.
Wealthy men had mistresses, professors had affairs with students, and even the lowly village priest, a man of social and spiritual power, if not of great wealth, often enjoyed the sexual favors of a woman conveniently at hand to take care of his domestic needs.
The hatred began when Aristide, then a parish
priest
and democracy campaigner against Haiti's ruthless Duvalier dictatorship, preached liberation theology in the 1980's.
It wasn’t the Vatican that took the lead in creating Christian Democracy – it was innovative philosophers like Maritain (who never served in the Church hierarchy, though he was briefly French ambassador to the Vatican) and political entrepreneurs like Sturzo (a simple Sicilian priest).
On a table stood a wooden bust of Father Kolbe, the Polish
priest
who had recently been beatified by Pope John Paul II.Father Kolbe had suffered in the camps the fate that my family escaped.
After the attacks on Charlie Hebdo and a kosher grocery in January 2015, there was the mass murder committed at the Bataclan theater and other Paris sites in November 2015; the truck attack on Nice’s Promenade des Anglais this summer; the subsequent murder at a Catholic church in Normandy of a beloved priest, whose throat was cut during mass; the attack on a private home outside Paris, where a married couple of police officers were murdered in front of their child; and the stabbing of a Jewish man in Strasbourg this month.
Maradona:
Priest
and Victim of a Dark Argentine RitualAt the edge of death, but still clinging to life, Diego Maradona seems these days both
priest
and victim of a tragic Argentine ritual.
As for the temple priest, he closed the site briefly after their visit to carry out a “purification ritual.”
If that is where the previous ideological high
priest
of globalization now stands, China is facing off against not just Trump’s America, but liberal America, too.
And the
priest
is such a nice old man.
On going up the steps and turning to the right he saw the
priest.
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